February 14, 2001

Renewable Energy as Realistic Challenge to Oil is Topic of Lecture

A free lecture on how renewable energy technologies can be a realistic challenge to oil will be offered at Sonoma State University on Monday,
Feb. 26.

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen, director of the University of California at Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, will explain how solar, wind, small-scale hydro, and biomass-based energy have undergone a revolution in technological innovation in recent years. Kammen is an authority on energy and development.

The free lecture, part of the "What Physicists Do" series, will be at 4 p.m. in Darwin Hall Room 108. The campus is located in Rohnert Park at 1801 E. Cotati Ave.

For further information see http://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/wpd/, send e-mail to gayle.walker@sonoma.edu, or call (707) 664-2119.


Jean Wasp
Media Relations Coordinator
University Affairs
(707) 664-2057
jean.wasp@sonoma.edu